Bernhard Fuckeradt

Bernhard Fuckeradt (* 1601 Langensalza ; † April 21, 1662 in Cologne ) was a German Jesuit priest and painter.

Fuckeradt was born into a Lutheran family. Around the 1620s he came to Cologne as a decorative painter and dealt with painting and gilding the altars. The conversion in 1631 was followed by the inclusion in the Society of Jesus and the novitiate in Trier from 1631 to 1632. Between 1634 and 1637 he learned the painting with Rubens in Antwerp . He then worked as a painter of pictures with religious motifs in Cologne, Düsseldorf (1645, 1647–1654) and Aachen (1646, 1656).

Fuckeradt painted numerous pictures a. a. for the Jesuit Church of St. Mary's Assumption in Cologne and for the Jesuit Church of St. Andreas in Düsseldorf. Most of his works were lost after the dissolution of the Jesuit order (Düsseldorf, Aachen) and during the Second World War (St. Mary's Assumption). His last and only existing work is the Martyrdom of the Apostle Andreas , made in the years 1658–1662 for the new, baroque altar of the collegiate church of St. Andreas in Cologne. Joseph Braun mentions two drawings by Fuckeradt in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum . Bernhard Fuckeradt, suffering from asthma , spent the last years of his life at the Jesuit college in Cologne.

The crucifixion of St. Andrew, 1658, St. Andreas (Cologne)

literature

• Joseph Braun SJ: The church buildings of the German Jesuits. A contribution to the cultural and art history of the 17th and 18th centuries. Part 1: The churches of the undivided Rhenish and Lower Rhenish religious provinces, Freiburg im Breisgau 1908; Voices from Maria-Laach, Vol. 99/100; Chapter on St. Mary's Assumption in Cologne, pp. 64–104, Biogram of Bernhard Fuckeradt, p. 97.
• Dietmar Spengler: "Primitiae martyrum Societatis Iesu in Ecclesia Iaponica": the painter Bernard Fuckerad SJ A contribution to the working method of religious painting; in: Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu 75 (2006) 149, pp. 63-78. ISSN  0037-8887 .

Web links

Brief note on Spengler's essay